Super Sized Molecules
Practically everything we experience is
made up of molecules. These vary in size from simple pairs of atoms, like an
oxygen molecule, to complex organic structures. But the biggest molecule in
nature resides in your body. It is chromosome 1. A normal human cell has 23
pairs of chromosomes in its nucleus, each a single, very long, molecule of DNA.
Chromosome 1 is the biggest, containing around 10bn atoms, to pack in the
amount of information that is encoded in the molecule.
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